Health care politics, policy, and services : a social justice analysis / Gunnar Almgren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Almgren, Gunnar Robert, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--United States--History.

Medical policy.

Medical policy--United States.

Social justice--United States.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (417 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new edition of the AJN Award-winning textbook analyzes the most current health care reforms and their effect on our health system from a social justice perspective. It addresses the reforms of the landmark health care reform bill passed in March, 2010, and provides students of health care policy with a framework within which they can understand and evaluate our health system. The text provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the historical evolution and organization of our health care system that is framed by a forthright social justice critique. In addition to extensive cover

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. A Primer on Theories of Social Justice and Defining the Problem of Health Care; Defining the Problem of Social Justice; Alternative Theories of Social Justice; Concluding Comments: Alternative Theoretical Perspectives on "the Right to Health Care"; Notes; References; Chapter 2. Historical Evolvement of the U.S. Health Care System; Historical Evolvement of the Basic Components of the Health Care System: Hospitals, Doctors, Nurses, and Health Insurance

The Historical Evolvement of the Federal Government in Health CareConcluding Comments: Prospects for Achieving Health Care Reform; Notes; References; Chapter 3. The Contemporary Organization of Health Care: Health CareFinance; Health Care Expenditures; An Overview of Health Care System Finance-Employment-Based Health Insurance; An Overview of Health Care System Finance-Public Financing of Health Care; Concluding Comments: The Large Presence of Public Dollars in the Financing of Health Care; Notes; References

Chapter 4. The Contemporary Organization of Health Care: Health Care Services and UtilizationThe Mixed Public/Private Structure of the U.S. Health Care System; The Resources of the U.S. System: Facilities, Technology, and Human Resources; The Health Care System Safety Net; Concluding Comments: The Paradoxical Underachievement of the U.S. Health Care System; Notes; References; Chapter 5. Long-Term Care of the Aged and Disabled; The Long-Term Care Services System; The Sustainability of Resources for Long-Term Care: Caregiving Labor and Public/Private Financing

Directions for Long-Term Financing PolicyConcluding Comments: A Social Justice Perspective on the Financing of Long-Term Care; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Disparities in Health and Health Care; Conceptualizing Disparities in Health and Health Care; Measuring Disparities in Health and Health Care; Social Characteristics Associated With Disparities in Health and Health Care; Disparities in Health and Burden of Disease: General Findings; Concluding Comments: The Deep Roots of Disparities in Health Care; Notes; References

Chapter 7. Social Epidemiology: Unraveling the Social Determinants of Disparities in HealthThe Discipline of Social Epidemiology; The "Fundamental Social Causes" Hypothesis; Income Inequality as a Social Determinant of Health; Theoretical Debates Concerning Income Inequality Effects; Concluding Comments: Social Epidemiology as a Tool of Social Policy; Notes; References; Chapter 8. Prospects for Just Health Care System Reform: A Political and Principled Analysis; The Social and Political Context of Health Care Reform; The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)

Concluding Comments: Toward a Progressive Vision of Universal Health Care

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8261-0888-1

OCLC:

828793704